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Friday, April 20, 2018

United Kingdom: Deep Geothermal Potential of the UK

Jon Gluyas and Charlotte Adams discuss recent National Centre for Energy Systems Integration (CESI) research which looks at how the UK’s heat supply can be decarbonized and national energy security improved.

Two recent papers to emerge from CESI examine the potential to decarbonize the UK’s heat supply and simultaneously improve national energy security.

A very conservative estimation indicates that at current levels of heat use there is an absolute minimum of 100 years heat supply from these sources. Moreover, such heat sources have a near zero carbon footprint.